{"id":135627,"date":"2023-01-04T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135627"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:58:22","slug":"russians-blamed-attack-on-their-barracks-on-banned-cell-phone-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135627","title":{"rendered":"Russians blamed attack on their barracks on banned cell phone use"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully struck a vocational building, in Makiivka, that the Russians were using as a barracks. It also appeared that the Russians were using the same building to store ammunition. The Russian government blamed Russian soldiers who used their cell phones despite the ban on soldiers using their cell phones. The Russian government claims that 89 Russian soldiers were killed.<\/p>\n

However, the Ukrainians claim that approximately 400 Russian soldiers were killed and hundreds more were wounded. Russians took to Russian social media to criticize Russian military leaders for housing both soldiers and rounds in the same structure.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Moscow appeared to blame its own troops Wednesday for the deadly strike that hit its military barracks just after midnight on New Year\u2019s Day, saying banned cellphone use alerted Ukrainian forces to the barrack\u2019s location.<\/p>\n

The deadliest known assault on Russian forces since the war began occurred at 12:01 a.m. on New Year\u2019s Day in the city of Makiyivka in the hard-fought Donetsk region.<\/p>\n

“It has already become obvious at present that the main cause of the occurrence was activation and large-scale use, contrary to the ban, of personal phones by personnel within the reach of enemy\u2019s destruction means,” Lt. Gen. Sergey Sevryukov told Russian media outlets Wednesday. “This factor enabled the enemy to take the bearing and determine coordinates of servicemen location to deliver a missile strike.<\/p>\n

“Required measures are being taken at present to exclude such tragic incidents in the future,” he added.<\/p>\n

The death toll from the strike on the barracks \u2013 located some 50 miles south of Bakhmut where intense warfare has raged for months \u2013 has also risen according to the Russian defense ministry.<\/p>\n

In an unusual admission of wartime deaths, the toll jumped from 63 soldiers killed in the attack according to the Russian ministry earlier this week to 89 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Sevryukov told Russian outlets that medical aid was immediately provided but that “regrettably, the death toll of our comrades increased to 89 when removing structural steel debris.”<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal reported that the regiment\u2019s deputy commander was also killed in the strike.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials have claimed the strike \u2013 which used U.S.-supplied HIMARS to hit the barracks \u2013 killed as many as 400 and injured hundreds more, though Fox News Digital could not independently verify these figures.<\/p>\n

Sevryukov said an investigation had been opened into the circumstances that allowed for the successful sneak attack in Donetsk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has more information on this story here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Additionally, the Washington Post addresses criticism, on Russian social media<\/a>, of the decision to place both troops and ammunition in the same building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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